Quote from: Jill F on January 11, 2015, 01:42:12 PM
I started at an early age drinking Led Zeppelin and AC/DC, which led to experimenting with smoking Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest in 8th grade. Before you know it I was tripping on Metallica and Exodus(t). By the time I was in college, I was snorting up Testament and Cacophony until I was mainlining Sepultura and Napalm Death. LOL
HAHA, this is great!

Quote from: Laura Squirrel on January 11, 2015, 02:42:51 PM
I think I love you.
That is so awesome that you mentioned Faith No More. I got into them when I was 12. I had such a crush on Mike Patton. (Which just made the GID suck that much more.) I also started with learning how to sing due to his influence. But, during 1991, I was entering into this "If it's not Death Metal/Grindcore, it sucks" phase. Then I discarded Faith No More, Living Colour, Anthrax and a bunch of other stuff. My cassette collection shrank really quick.
Looking back on it, it was pretty stupid. But that's how things go sometimes. Once I heard John Zorn's band, Painkiller, that broke me out of that phase and I began to widen the scope of what I listened to.
That's amusing what you said about AC/DC. I remember once I was getting into heavier bands. I had a lot of douchebags saying stuff to me like: "What? You think you're tough just because you listen to Metal?" I was, like: "What the hell are you idiots talking about? It's just a musical preference, you morons."
Aww shucks.... lol
I never crushed on Mike, but damn was I disappointed when he cut his hair! He was totally my first musical hero though, and I drove my parents nuts w/ FNM all the way up 'til their break up in '98. I actually had more of a thing for Roddy.... In fact, I'm pretty certain he was the first guy I had an..... "adult" dream about! lol
I didn't get into my "if it's not heavy it sucks" period until I was out of high school. Again, this was because the tough guy douchebags at my high school got into the heavy stuff, so I gave that kind of stuff a wide berth and ended up getting into 60s + 70s stuff, basically raiding the cream of my parents' collection (Beatles, Doors, Queen, Zeppelin, Bowie, etc) instead.... My only concessions to modernity were (w/ FNM), the Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Sonic Youth and Soundgarden.
Finally got the heavy stuff out of high school when a friend showed me Pantera, Fear Factory, Sepultura and (randomly, considering the others) Celtic Frost!
THEN, I got into the "if it's not heavy it sucks" mindset, but I was probably more into black metal than anything else during that period, but there was plenty of space for some thrash, industrial, death + a pinch of grind too!
I'm not sure what broke me out of that cycle, probably had a bit to do w/ the more atmospheric diversions that sprang from black metal + industrial, which lead down the path of Throbbing Gristle, Brighter Death Now, Sopor Aeternus, etc....
Well, that and a chance encounter w/ Depeche Mode's Violator which reminded me of how much I adore some of the 80s synth pop (before anyone jumps in, yes, I know Violator was released in 1990! :p ) of my early childhood!
That's interesting about people saying that to you about listening to metal. Where I grew up, the people who were "into metal" (ie, they weren't really) WERE into it to appear tough! They'd parade around in Cannibal Corpse and Cradle of Filth shirts and blast Pantera + Metallica, but dropped it all as soon as they figured out they weren't "scorin' chicks" that way.... ***holes!